Capacity and error probability analysis of orthogonal space-time block codes over correlated nakagami fading channels

Author

Li, Wei ; Zhang, Hao ; Gulliver, T. Aaron

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC

Volume

5

Issue

9

fYear

2006

fDate

9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2408

Lastpage

2412

Abstract

In this letter, system capacity and error probability of orthogonal space-time block coding (STBC) is considered for PAM/PSK/QAM modulation in correlated Nakagami fading channels. The approach is based on an equivalent scalar AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) channel with a channel gain proportional to the Frobenius norm of the matrix channel for the STBC. Closed form capacity and error probability expressions are derived for Nakagami fading channels. Numerical results are given to illustrate the theory

Keywords

AWGN channels; Nakagami channels; block codes; error statistics; matrix algebra; phase shift keying; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; space-time codes; Frobenius norm; PAM-PSK-QAM modulation; STBC; additive white Gaussian noise channel; channel gain; correlated Nakagami fading channels; error probability analysis; matrix channel; orthogonal space-time block codes; phase shift keying; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; scalar AWGN channel; system capacity analysis; AWGN; Additive white noise; Block codes; Capacity planning; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Modulation coding; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2006.1687764

Filename

1687764